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Four Things You Must do to Have Success in Difficult Times Published on 20/11/2008

Success means different things to different people: for some it is building wealth; for some it is successful relationships; for some it is creativity and independence; and, for others it some form of leadership. Whatever constitutes your definition of success, you will find some common principles that are needed to make it achievable. Consider the following four actions. Notice that they...

Seven Ways to Steer Traffic to your Website Published on 15/04/2008

You have a website or maybe a lead capture page, but you are not sure how to steer traffic to it. With good targeted traffic, you can test and track your conversion, your click-throughs, list building, to name a few of the possibilities. There are numerous traffic sources, such as search engine traffic. But relying solely on search engines for your traffic, or from any one source is...

So You Want to Join a Start-up MLM? Published on 24/03/2008

You're setting across the table from a prospect. You show them your company's presentation as you have shown others dozens of times before. And then they tell you, "my neighbor showed me this two weeks ago". You think to yourself, "If only I had gotten into my company during the early days, before everyone's neighbor was in." They call it a MLM ground floor opportunity, a network marketing...

Six Barriers to Financial Success in your Network Marketing Business Published on 20/03/2008

You hear about a network marketing business. You would like to have the freedom, flexibility and the ocean of wealth that seems to be possible. Maybe you remember joining one before. Maybe you remember getting discouraged because the business had not grown. You do not know if it is the business that did not work or if it did not work for you. There are a lot of reasons why network marketers...

Management Theory And Building A Network Marketing Business Published on 04/03/2008

Building a Network Marketing Business is not so much about managing people as it is about leading others. You can manage from a very selfish vantage point but to maintain longer term leadership demands the ability to be others oriented. It means you do what is best for the people. It has been noted that "the extent to which you are able to transform your self-concern into other-concern will...

Entrepreneurship and Michael Dell's: Content, Commerce, & Community Published on 25/02/2008

If you want to be an entrepreneur, who better to study than Michael Dell? He is an inspiration to entrepreneurs everywhere. Starting in his college dorm room building computers, his understanding of business has made him an icon of success in the arena of technology businesses. In two keynote addresses given almost a decade ago, Michael Dell defined three principles or concepts for...

Do You Want to Launch a Leadership Revolution? Published on 10/02/2008

There are many terrific books that offer information on leadership as both an art and a science. They are books that every manager, in any capacity, should invest their money and time into studying and applying in their work situation. Reading such books to keep abreast of the times will help you launch a leadership revolution that will enable you to make your work environment run smoothly. ...

Ten Questions to Evaluate a Network Marketing Opportunity Published on 02/02/2008

You are setting across the table from your friend, Michael. He's telling you about a business opportunity that sounds really exciting. It's network marketing which makes sense to you in principle. It's a new one which means the timing is great. How do evaluate the opportunity? You are not afraid of the negative perceptions like, "it's a pyramid". You know that every successful organization...

Four Ways Leaders Need to Communicate Published on 01/01/2008

The leader is the broker of a message. The manager is a broker of information. And yet, managers can be leaders. It all depends on the significance of the message and what they do with it. Adept managers can take an old message and re-tool it and then leverage it into greater influence. That is what leaders do. They influence others. It may be formal influeence in their employment. It may...

Theory Based Communication for Leaders - Failure to Communicate Published on 31/12/2007

"What we have here is a failure to communicate." From the movie Cool Hand Luke. You are the leader the next door and you have to give a speech, make a presentation, write an advertisement, or simply carry on a conversations in a social networking opportunity. How do you insure that you do not fail to communicate? What four simple actions will help you? The first thing is to define what...